Upcoming Events and Workshops

Oct. 4, 2018 - Spring 2019: Mudd Manuscript Library exhibition - "Redefining Old Nassau: Women and the Shaping of Modern Princeton"Time: 9:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.Location: Mudd Manuscript Library, Wiess LoungeDescription: Through the collections of the University Archives in the Princeton University Library, this exhibition celebrates Princeton women’s achievements, as well as their stories, and also provides insights into how women have pursued knowledge, claimed space, and supported one another over the last five decades.Audience: Open to publicContact: Mudd Manuscript LibraryLearn more

SPRING 2019

Feb. 18: Geographic Information Systems Workshop: Introduction to ArcGIS ProTime: 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 225Description: A Geographic Information System (GIS) combines software and digital geographic data to generate maps, tables and interactive analyses of spatial information. Princeton faculty, students and staff use GIS technology to manage resources, explore spatial relationships, and visualize change. The class, intended for those with no previous GIS experience, describes the technology and includes simple exercises to introduce its capabilities.Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Tsering Wangyal Shawa, Geographic Information Systems and Map LibrarianLearn more

Feb. 19: Geographic Information Systems Workshop: How to Select and Analyze Geographic Features and DataTime: 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 225Description: ArcGIS Pro has a powerful set of software tools to visually explore and analyze spatial information. Point, line, and area features (vector data) are both geographic objects on a map and records in a table. Such features can be selected by location or by the values stored in a feature's record. These simple capabilities allow the GIS user to conduct complex analyses. The session uses data for central New Jersey to calculate the area of land use types near streams, the extent of paved surfaces, and other measures. Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Tsering Wangyal Shawa, Geographic Information Systems and Map LibrarianLearn more

Feb. 20: Geographic Information Systems Workshop: How to Create and Collect Geographic DataTime: 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 225Description: In this class, students will learn how to collect geographic data from Google maps and Google Earth, how to add GPS data to GIS software, and how to georeference a scanned map. The exercise will also show how to extract points, lines, and areas from the georeferenced map. Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Tsering Wangyal Shawa, Geographic Information Systems and Map LibrarianLearn more

Feb. 21: Geographic Information Systems Workshop: Finding the Best Location using ArcGIS ProTime: 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 225Description: GIS software allows the user to treat the Earth's surface as a continuous array of numbers. Images and raster datasets can be used to rank suitable locations, estimate change, and display phenomena such as elevation, precipitation, or temperature. The session uses land use, distance from streams, and elevation to rank the relative suitability of different areas. This 'weighted overlay' method is useful in a variety of contexts. Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Tsering Wangyal Shawa, Geographic Information Systems and Map LibrarianLearn more

Feb. 22:Lewis Science Library Film Series: The Joy of Mathematics - Joy of Higher Algebra, Joy of Algebra Made VisualTime: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 228Description: "This course of 24 half-hour lectures celebrates the sheer joy of mathematics, taught by a mathematician who is literally a magician with numbers. Professor Arthur T. Benjamin of Harvey Mudd College is renowned for his feats of mental calculation performed before audiences at schools, theaters, museums, conferences, and other venues." - The Teaching Company LLCAudience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Louise Deis, Sci-Tech Reference & Biosciences Librarian

Feb. 22: Bibliographies made easy: Zotero and more!Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.Location: Firestone B-6-FDescription: This one hour workshop will focus on Zotero, but will also briefly introduce you to other similar software such as Mendeley. Approximately half of the session will be devoted to hands-on practice with Zotero: setting up an account, importing citations from library databases and web pages, and deploying the references into a Word document. Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff; Registration is required. Contact: Audrey Welber, Librarian for Teaching and Research ServicesSign up now

Feb. 25: Geographic Information Systems Workshop: Using Tables and Maps together in ArcGIS ProTime: 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 225Description: ArcGIS Pro has many different ways to access data sets, display them in a map, and analyze relationships over time and space. U.S. Census data can be integrated with GIS boundary files to analyze the spatial relationships of poverty, ethnicity, environmental risk, and other parameters. Hands-on examples will show how to find and download demographic data, how to combine the data with GIS files, and how to view the data in Pro. The session will assist any GIS user who wants to include tabular data in a spatial analysis. Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Tsering Wangyal Shawa, Geographic Information Systems and Map LibrarianLearn more

Feb. 26: Bibliographies made easy: Zotero and more!Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.Location: Firestone B-6-FDescription: This one hour workshop will focus on Zotero, but will also briefly introduce you to other similar software such as Mendeley. Approximately half of the session will be devoted to hands-on practice with Zotero: setting up an account, importing citations from library databases and web pages, and deploying the references into a Word document. Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff. Registration is required. Contact: Audrey Welber, Librarian for Teaching and Research ServicesSign up now

Feb. 26: Geographic Information Systems Workshop: Making Maps and Presentations using ArcGIS ProTime: 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 225Description: Maps can be extremely effective in communicating knowledge about an area. ArcGIS Pro has a variety of tools and techniques to design maps. Hands-on exercises will show how to use map-making tools within the software and introduce common cartographic techniques. The session will discuss how to design maps for a variety of presentation formats.Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Tsering Wangyal Shawa, Geographic Information Systems and Map LibrarianLearn more

Feb. 27: Geographic Information Systems Workshop: Introduction to ArcGIS ProTime: 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 225Description: A Geographic Information System (GIS) combines software and digital geographic data to generate maps, tables and interactive analyses of spatial information. Princeton faculty, students and staff use GIS technology to manage resources, explore spatial relationships, and visualize change. The class, intended for those with no previous GIS experience, describes the technology and includes simple exercises to introduce its capabilities.Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Tsering Wangyal Shawa, Geographic Information Systems and Map LibrarianLearn more

Mar. 1:Lewis Science Library Film Series: The Joy of Mathematics - Joy of 9, Joy of ProofsTime: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 228Description: "This course of 24 half-hour lectures celebrates the sheer joy of mathematics, taught by a mathematician who is literally a magician with numbers. Professor Arthur T. Benjamin of Harvey Mudd College is renowned for his feats of mental calculation performed before audiences at schools, theaters, museums, conferences, and other venues." - The Teaching Company LLCAudience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Louise Deis, Sci-Tech Reference & Biosciences Librarian

Mar. 4: Geographic Information Systems Workshop: How to Create and Collect Geographic DataTime: 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 225Description: In this class, students will learn how to collect geographic data from Google maps and Google Earth, how to add GPS data to GIS software, and how to georeference a scanned map. The exercise will also show how to extract points, lines, and areas from the georeferenced map. Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Tsering Wangyal Shawa, Geographic Information Systems and Map LibrarianLearn more

Mar. 5: Geographic Information Systems Workshop: How to Select and Analyze Geographic Features and DataTime: 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 225Description: ArcGIS Pro has a powerful set of software tools to visually explore and analyze spatial information. Point, line, and area features (vector data) are both geographic objects on a map and records in a table. Such features can be selected by location or by the values stored in a feature's record. These simple capabilities allow the GIS user to conduct complex analyses. The session uses data for central New Jersey to calculate the area of land use types near streams, the extent of paved surfaces, and other measures. Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Tsering Wangyal Shawa, Geographic Information Systems and Map LibrarianLearn more

Mar. 6: Geographic Information Systems Workshop: Finding the Best Location using ArcGIS ProTime: 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 225Description: GIS software allows the user to treat the Earth's surface as a continuous array of numbers. Images and raster datasets can be used to rank suitable locations, estimate change, and display phenomena such as elevation, precipitation, or temperature. The session uses land use, distance from streams, and elevation to rank the relative suitability of different areas. This 'weighted overlay' method is useful in a variety of contexts. Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Tsering Wangyal Shawa, Geographic Information Systems and Map LibrarianLearn more

Mar. 7: Geographic Information Systems Workshop: Using Tables and Maps together in ArcGIS ProTime: 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 225Description: ArcGIS Pro has many different ways to access data sets, display them in a map, and analyze relationships over time and space. U.S. Census data can be integrated with GIS boundary files to analyze the spatial relationships of poverty, ethnicity, environmental risk, and other parameters. Hands-on examples will show how to find and download demographic data, how to combine the data with GIS files, and how to view the data in Pro. The session will assist any GIS user who wants to include tabular data in a spatial analysis. Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Tsering Wangyal Shawa, Geographic Information Systems and Map LibrarianLearn more

Mar. 8:Lewis Science Library Film Series: The Joy of Mathematics - Joy of Geometry, Joy of PiTime: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 228Description: "This course of 24 half-hour lectures celebrates the sheer joy of mathematics, taught by a mathematician who is literally a magician with numbers. Professor Arthur T. Benjamin of Harvey Mudd College is renowned for his feats of mental calculation performed before audiences at schools, theaters, museums, conferences, and other venues." - The Teaching Company LLCAudience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Louise Deis, Sci-Tech Reference & Biosciences Librarian

Mar. 11: Geographic Information Systems Workshop: Making Maps and Presentations using ArcGIS ProTime: 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 225Description: Maps can be extremely effective in communicating knowledge about an area. ArcGIS Pro has a variety of tools and techniques to design maps. Hands-on exercises will show how to use map-making tools within the software and introduce common cartographic techniques. The session will discuss how to design maps for a variety of presentation formats.Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Tsering Wangyal Shawa, Geographic Information Systems and Map LibrarianLearn more

Mar. 12: Geographic Information Systems Workshop: Introduction to QGISTime: 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 225Description: QGIS is an open-source GIS desktop software package. It has many features found in other desktop GIS software, runs on Linux/Unix, MacOS, and Windows operating systems and is available at no cost. Intended for anyone new to GIS technology, this training uses QGIS on Windows to show how to load geospatial data, add on-line map services, extract selected data, and make simple maps. The training may also be useful to users of other desktop GIS software.Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Tsering Wangyal Shawa, Geographic Information Systems and Map LibrarianLearn more

Mar. 12: Remorseless Cannibals and Loving Scribes: Samples and Highlights from Princeton University's Collection of Ethiopian Manuscripts (1500s to 1900s)Time: 4:30 to 6 p.m.Location: Firestone, C Floor (Rare Books and Special Collections, large classroom)Description: Wendy Laura Belcher, Princeton University; Dr. Michael Kleiner, University of Göttingen; and Qesis Melaku Terefe, Virgin Mary Ethiopian Church, will present a lecture, co-sponsored by Princeton University's Council of the Humanities, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of African American Studies, the Program in African Studies, the Program in Medieval Studies, the Index on Christian Art, and the Princeton University Art Museum. Audience: Open to publicContact: Evgeniia Lambrinaki, evgeniia@princeton.eduLearn more

Mar. 13: Geographic Information Systems Workshop: Essential GIS tools for researchTime: 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 225Description: In this class, students will learn how to use GIS tools to calculate distances between two features, road, and river lengths within administrative units, the percentage of shared boundaries between two areas, extract information on polygon neighbors between two areas, and will explore many other analysis tools.Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Tsering Wangyal Shawa, Geographic Information Systems and Map LibrarianLearn more

Mar. 14: Geographic Information Systems Workshop: Supervised Image Classification using ArcGIS ProTime: 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 225Description: ArcGIS Pro has many tools to classify satellite images and air photos into land use and land cover categories. This session will introduce the Raster Functions pane and the Image Classification Wizard and will work with Landsat images of New Jersey to conduct a supervised land use/land cover classification.Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Tsering Wangyal Shawa, Geographic Information Systems and Map LibrarianLearn more

Mar. 22:Lewis Science Library Film Series: The Joy of Mathematics - Joy of Trigonometry, Joy of Imaginary Number iTime: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 228Description: "This course of 24 half-hour lectures celebrates the sheer joy of mathematics, taught by a mathematician who is literally a magician with numbers. Professor Arthur T. Benjamin of Harvey Mudd College is renowned for his feats of mental calculation performed before audiences at schools, theaters, museums, conferences, and other venues." - The Teaching Company LLCAudience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Louise Deis, Sci-Tech Reference & Biosciences Librarian

Mar. 29:Lewis Science Library Film Series: The Joy of Mathematics - Joy of the Number e, Joy of InfinityTime: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 228Description: "This course of 24 half-hour lectures celebrates the sheer joy of mathematics, taught by a mathematician who is literally a magician with numbers. Professor Arthur T. Benjamin of Harvey Mudd College is renowned for his feats of mental calculation performed before audiences at schools, theaters, museums, conferences, and other venues." - The Teaching Company LLCAudience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Louise Deis, Sci-Tech Reference & Biosciences Librarian

Apr. 3: Geographic Information Systems Workshop: Using ModelBuilder in ArcGIS ProTime: 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 225Description: GIS users often want to run a process multiple times, changing the inputs, parameters, or summaries generated. ArcGIS Pro has many ways to help users automate processes. The exercises show users how to use graphic tools in ModelBuilder, how to run models iteratively, and how to extract arcpy commands for use in Python scripts.Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Tsering Wangyal Shawa, Geographic Information Systems and Map LibrarianLearn more

Apr. 4: Geographic Information Systems Workshop: Creating Web Mapping Applications using ArcGIS Story MapTime: 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 225Description: Interactive maps that run from a browser have become the default way to view geographic data. The exercises show users how to post geographic data to the University’s ArcGIS Enterprise portal, how to create web maps from different data sets, how to use symbology to make the web map accessible and clear, and how to share the web map as a web application.Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Tsering Wangyal Shawa, Geographic Information Systems and Map LibrarianLearn more

Apr. 5:Lewis Science Library Film Series: The Joy of Mathematics - Joy of Infinite Series, Joy of Different CalculusTime: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 228Description: "This course of 24 half-hour lectures celebrates the sheer joy of mathematics, taught by a mathematician who is literally a magician with numbers. Professor Arthur T. Benjamin of Harvey Mudd College is renowned for his feats of mental calculation performed before audiences at schools, theaters, museums, conferences, and other venues." - The Teaching Company LLCAudience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Louise Deis, Sci-Tech Reference & Biosciences Librarian

Apr. 12:Lewis Science Library Film Series: The Joy of Mathematics - Joy of Approximating with Calculus, Joy of Integral CalculusTime: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 228Description: "This course of 24 half-hour lectures celebrates the sheer joy of mathematics, taught by a mathematician who is literally a magician with numbers. Professor Arthur T. Benjamin of Harvey Mudd College is renowned for his feats of mental calculation performed before audiences at schools, theaters, museums, conferences, and other venues." - The Teaching Company LLCAudience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Louise Deis, Sci-Tech Reference & Biosciences Librarian

Apr. 19:Lewis Science Library Film Series: The Joy of Mathematics - Joy of Pascal's Triangle, Joy of ProbabilityTime: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 228Description: "This course of 24 half-hour lectures celebrates the sheer joy of mathematics, taught by a mathematician who is literally a magician with numbers. Professor Arthur T. Benjamin of Harvey Mudd College is renowned for his feats of mental calculation performed before audiences at schools, theaters, museums, conferences, and other venues." - The Teaching Company LLCAudience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Louise Deis, Sci-Tech Reference & Biosciences Librarian

Apr. 26:Lewis Science Library Film Series: The Joy of Mathematics - Joy of Mathematical Games, Joy of Mathematical MagicTime: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 228Description: "This course of 24 half-hour lectures celebrates the sheer joy of mathematics, taught by a mathematician who is literally a magician with numbers. Professor Arthur T. Benjamin of Harvey Mudd College is renowned for his feats of mental calculation performed before audiences at schools, theaters, museums, conferences, and other venues." - The Teaching Company LLCAudience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Louise Deis, Sci-Tech Reference & Biosciences Librarian

Sept. 24: Center for Digital Humanities Fall 2018 Open HouseTime: 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Location: Firestone Library, Center for Digital Humanities, B FloorDescription: Celebrate the start of the year with CDH as they kick off their Year of Data! Learn more about CDH projects, meet their staff, enjoy snacks and drinks, and collect your very own limited edition tote bag. Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Center for Digital HumanitiesLearn more

Sept. 24: East Asian Library Graduate Student Orientation TourTime: 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Location: Frist Campus Center, East Asian LibraryDescription: Learn more about East Asian Library's collections, as well as services and resources for graduate students.Audience: Open to Princeton University graduate students in the Department of East Asian StudiesContact: Martin Heijdra, East Asian Library Director

Sept. 26: "Collections as Data" Reading GroupTime: 12:00 p.m. to 1:20 p.m.Location: Firestone Library, Center for Digital Humanities, B FloorDescription: Join the CDH and PUL first "Collections as Data" reading group meeting of the Fall semester.Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Center for Digital HumanitiesLearn more

Sept. 26: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Workshop: How to Select and Analyze Geographic Features and DataLearn more

Sept. 27: Active Learning Pedagogy WorkshopTime: 10:30 a.m.Location: Frist Campus Center, Room 329Description: What is active learning pedagogy, whom does it benefit, and how do we put it into practice? How does using interactive teaching methods challenge us to think differently about our role as teaching librarians? This interactive workshop will explore these - and your own - questions. Led by Kate Stanton, senior associate director of the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning.Audience: Open to Princeton University faculty and staff; RSVP requiredContact: Audrey Welber, Librarian for Teaching and Research Services

Sept. 27: Introduction to Electronic Resources at East Asian LibraryTime: 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.Location: Frist Campus Center, East Asian LibraryDescription: Learn more about finding specialized electronic databases for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean studies.Audience: Open to Princeton University graduate students in the Department of East Asian StudiesContact: Martin Heijdra, East Asian Library Director

Oct. 2: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Workshop: Using Tables and Maps together in ArcGIS ProLearn more

Oct. 3: Data Cleaning WorkshopTime: 12:00 p.m. to 1:20 p.m.Location: Wallace Hall, Stokes Library, Lower LevelDescription: A hands-on workshop, led by Seth Porter, Head of Stokes Library, to help users clean their data sets and work on analysis and visualizations using OpenRefine. Laptops with OpenRefine pre-installed required. If you have difficulty installing OpenRefine, visit Stokes Library 30 minutes before the event and a staff member will help. Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Center for Digital HumanitiesLearn more

Oct 5: Bibliographies made easy: Zotero and more!Time: 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.Location: Firestone Library, Classroom B-6-FDescription: This one hour workshop will focus on Zotero, but will also briefly introduce you to Endnote, Refworks, and Mendeley. Approximately half of the session will be devoted to hands-on practice with Zotero: setting up an account, importing citations from library databases and web pages, and deploying the references into a Word document. Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff; Registration requiredContact: Audrey Welber, Librarian for Teaching and Research ServicesSign up

Oct 11: Bibliographies made easy: Zotero and more!Time: 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.Location: Firestone Library, Classroom B-6-FDescription: This one hour workshop will focus on Zotero, but will also briefly introduce you to Endnote, Refworks, and Mendeley. Approximately half of the session will be devoted to hands-on practice with Zotero: setting up an account, importing citations from library databases and web pages, and deploying the references into a Word document. Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff; Registration requiredContact: Audrey Welber, Librarian for Teaching and Research ServicesSign up

Oct. 19: Senior Thesis Workshop for WWS StudentsTime: 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.Location: Stokes Library, ClassroomDescription: Join Seth Porter, Head of Stokes Library, for a tailored workshop, which will focus on getting started on the research process, building a foundation for the senior thesis process, basic research design and methods, finding and accessing relevant literature and data, and how to write a literature review and citation management. Audience: Open to WWS studentsContact: Seth Porter, Head of Stokes LibraryLearn more

Oct 19: Bibliographies made easy: Zotero and more!Time: 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.Location: Firestone Library, Classroom B-6-FDescription: This one hour workshop will focus on Zotero, but will also briefly introduce you to Endnote, Refworks, and Mendeley. Approximately half of the session will be devoted to hands-on practice with Zotero: setting up an account, importing citations from library databases and web pages, and deploying the references into a Word document. Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff; Registration requiredContact: Audrey Welber, Librarian for Teaching and Research ServicesSign up

Oct. 22: Who Counts?: A Symposium on Intersectional DataTime: 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.Location: Firestone Library, Center for Digital Humanities, B FloorDescription: This symposium offers a forum for uncovering and analyzing the ways in which data practices - particularly those that abstract and classify individuals - replicate existing inequalities and institutionalize bias. It focuses on gaps, blanks, and absences and asks what might be done to foster practices at every stage in the data lifecycle that engage and represent the full spectrum of society. Presented by Lauren F. Klein from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Mimi Onuoha from New York University.Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Center for Digital HumanitiesLearn more

Oct. 23: Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Workshop - Building your Research Data Management Toolkit: Integrating RDM into Your Liaison WorkTime: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.Location: Frist Campus Center, Multipurpose Room C (B04C)Description: What is your role as a librarian in research data management? How can you partner with other campus experts to address RDM needs? Do you have the skills to support data management? This workshop is an introductory-level experience led by RDM experts in the academic field. Prior RDM experience is not necessary. Audience: Open to Princeton University and Rutgers University librarians; limited seating open to publicContact: Seth Porter, Head, Donald E. Stokes LibraryLearn more

Oct. 24: Screening of "Paywall: The Business of Scholarship" (as part of Open Access Week)Time: 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.Location: Firestone Library, Classroom A-6-FDescription: Join Princeton University Library for a screening of the movie "Paywall: The Business of Scholarship," which focuses on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher Elsevier, and looks at how this profit margin is often greater than some of the most profitable tech companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google.Audience: Open to publicContact: Scholarly Communications OfficeLearn more

Oct 26: Bibliographies made easy: Zotero and more!Time: 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.Location: Firestone Library, Classroom B-6-FDescription: This one hour workshop will focus on Zotero, but will also briefly introduce you to Endnote, Refworks, and Mendeley. Approximately half of the session will be devoted to hands-on practice with Zotero: setting up an account, importing citations from library databases and web pages, and deploying the references into a Word document. Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff; Registration requiredContact: Audrey Welber, Librarian for Teaching and Research ServicesSign up

Oct. 26: Panel on open educational resources, student learning, and social justice (as part of Open Access Week) Time: 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.Location: Firestone Library, Classroom A-6-FDescription: A panel of two teaching faculty and three academic librarians from Rutgers University and City University of New York will describe their experiences with adopting, assessing, and providing access to open educational resources. The discussion will encompass the topics of classroom adoption, student engagement, institutional support, structural questions, and social justice issues surrounding open educational resources. From using open source course management software to organizing OER workshops for faculty, the OER panelists will provide perspective on the benefits and challenges of OER, based on their own professional experiences.Audience: Open to publicContact: Scholarly Communications OfficeLearn more

Nov. 6: "Frankenstein: the Book," a Firestone Library exhibitionOpen through Fall 2018Time: 8:00 a.m. to 11:45 p.m.Location: Firestone Library, LobbyDescription: An exhibition celebrating the 200th anniversary of the release of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, prepared in coordination with the "Frankenstein at 200" programming led by Professor Susan Wolfson, Department of English.Audience: Open to publicContact: Department of Rare Books and Special CollectionsLearn more

Nov. 6: Wikidata WorkshopTime: 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.Location: Firestone Library, Center for Digital Humanities, B floorDescription: A beginner-level, hands-on introduction to Wikidata and structured data on Wikimedia projects in order to empower and engage users to help create data that can be used effectively and disseminated globally.Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Luiza Wainer, Metadata Librarian, Spanish/Portuguese Specialty

Nov. 7: Controlled Vocabularies: People, Places, DatesTime: 12:00 p.m. to 1:20 p.m.Location: Firestone Library, Center for Digital Humanities, B floorDescription: Library cataloging revolves around creating large masses of data for indexing, sorting, and searching, and can provide useful guidelines for managing humanities data. This workshop, led by PUL's Cataloging and Metadata Services Director, Joyce Bell, will bring a cataloger’s insight into standards and best practices for dealing with data for people, places and dates. Topics covered include name authority files, subject thesauri, standards and formats, and linked open data.Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Center for Digital HumanitiesLearn more

Dec. 6: Bibliographies made easy: Zotero and more!Time: 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.Location: Firestone Library, Classroom B-6-FDescription: This one-hour workshop will focus on Zotero, but will also briefly introduce you to other similar software such as Mendeley. Approximately half of the session will be devoted to hands-on practice with Zotero: setting up an account, importing citations from library databases and web pages, and deploying the references into a Word document.Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff; Registration requiredContact: Audrey Welber, Librarian for Teaching and Research ServicesSign up

Dec. 6: Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce RacismTime: 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.Location: East Pyne Hall, Room 010Description: A lecture presented by Safiya Noble. In her book, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities. Data discrimination is a real social problem; Noble argues that the combination of private interests in promoting certain sites, along with the monopoly status of a relatively small number of Internet search engines, leads to a biased set of search algorithms that privilege whiteness and discriminate against people of color, specifically women of color. Audience: Open to publicContact: Center for Digital HumanitiesLearn more

Dec. 7: Data for Black LivesTime: 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.Location: Firestone Library, Center for Digital Humanities, B FloorDescription: The workshop is organized into three panels, each focusing on a different social arena - housing, policing, and education - that draw on data from the Eviction Lab, Mapping Police Violence, and National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), respectively. For each module, presenters will share a short presentation related to the theme (including a brief introduction of the data, discussion of existing literature, and a hands-on activity idea). Then respondents will kick off the workshop discussion by raising questions and reflecting on how the material can be used in classrooms and communities, including a new Princeton University class, and the syllabus, modules, and other resources will be available free online.Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Center for Digital HumanitiesLearn more

Jan. 28 - Feb. 1: Research Data Management WorkshopTime: Varies (Tentative schedule) Location: Lewis Science Library, Room 138Description: A five-day workshop on research data management, organized and sponsored by Princeton University Library, the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering, and OIT Research Computing. Topics covered will include an introduction to research data management, processing and analyzing data, and best practices for sharing and archiving research data. Audience: Open to Princeton University graduate studentsContact: Research Computing Information, rcinfo@princeton.eduLearn more

Feb. 1:Lewis Science Library Film Series: The Joy of Mathematics - Joy of Math, Joy of NumbersTime: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 228Description: "This course of 24 half-hour lectures celebrates the sheer joy of mathematics, taught by a mathematician who is literally a magician with numbers. Professor Arthur T. Benjamin of Harvey Mudd College is renowned for his feats of mental calculation performed before audiences at schools, theaters, museums, conferences, and other venues." - The Teaching Company LLCAudience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Louise Deis, Sci-Tech Reference & Biosciences Librarian

Feb. 5: How to conduct a Literature ReviewTime: 12:30 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Location: PNI Study Hall Level ADescription: This workshop will focus on conducting an undergraduate level literature review appropriate for a Junior Paper or Senior Thesis. We will cover how to locate scholarly literature, citation chaining, staying organized, and synthesis of ideas. Lunch will be provided. Audience: For psychology and neuroscience students onlyContact: Meghan Testerman, Psychology & Neuroscience LibrarianLearn more

Feb. 8:Lewis Science Library Film Series: The Joy of Mathematics - Joy of Primes, Joy of CountingTime: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 228Description: "This course of 24 half-hour lectures celebrates the sheer joy of mathematics, taught by a mathematician who is literally a magician with numbers. Professor Arthur T. Benjamin of Harvey Mudd College is renowned for his feats of mental calculation performed before audiences at schools, theaters, museums, conferences, and other venues." - The Teaching Company LLCAudience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Louise Deis, Sci-Tech Reference & Biosciences Librarian

Feb. 8: Bibliographies made easy: Zotero and more!Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.Location: Firestone B-6-FDescription: This one hour workshop will focus on Zotero, but will also briefly introduce you to other similar software such as Mendeley. Approximately half of the session will be devoted to hands-on practice with Zotero: setting up an account, importing citations from library databases and web pages, and deploying the references into a Word document. Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff; Registration is required. Contact: Audrey Welber, Librarian for Teaching and Research ServicesSign up now

Feb. 12: Bibliographies made easy: Zotero and more!Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.Location: Firestone B-6-FDescription: This one hour workshop will focus on Zotero, but will also briefly introduce you to other similar software such as Mendeley. Approximately half of the session will be devoted to hands-on practice with Zotero: setting up an account, importing citations from library databases and web pages, and deploying the references into a Word document. Audience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff; Registration is required. Contact: Audrey Welber, Librarian for Teaching and Research ServicesSign up now

Feb. 12: Tools for Writing & Citing in APA StyleTime: 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Location: PNI Study Hall Level ADescription: In this workshop, we will explore some of the tools available to students to assist with writing papers and citing resources in APA style. We will look at Academic Writer, a tool for writing APA formatted papers and Zotero, a reference management software. Lunch will be provided. Audience: For psychology and neuroscience students onlyContact: Meghan Testerman, Psychology & Neuroscience LibrarianLearn more

Feb. 13: Gillett G. Griffin Memorial Lecture: "Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century”Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.Location: McCormick Hall, Room 101Description: The third Gillett G. Griffin Memorial Lecture, “Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century," will be delivered by author and Associate Professor of English and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky, Dr. Nazera Sadiq Wright. Audience: Open to publicContact: Julie Mellby, Graphics Arts LibrarianLearn more

Feb. 15:Lewis Science Library Film Series: The Joy of Mathematics - Joy of Fibonacci Numbers, Joy of AlgebraTime: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.Location: Lewis Science Library, 228Description: "This course of 24 half-hour lectures celebrates the sheer joy of mathematics, taught by a mathematician who is literally a magician with numbers. Professor Arthur T. Benjamin of Harvey Mudd College is renowned for his feats of mental calculation performed before audiences at schools, theaters, museums, conferences, and other venues." - The Teaching Company LLCAudience: Open to Princeton University students, faculty, and staffContact: Louise Deis, Sci-Tech Reference & Biosciences Librarian

Feb. 15: Library Music Live: Songs from Mendel Music LibraryTime: 7:30 p.m.Location: Lee Music Room, Lewis Arts ComplexDescription: Princeton University Library presents a live performance of music from Mendel Music Library's locked collection. Repertoire includes cantatas by G.B. Bononcini from a 1721 engraving, part of our Music Treasures at Princeton collection; piano and vocal selections from our 19th-Century Sheet Music Collection; and art songs by Alexander Russell, the first Frick Professor of Music for Princeton University.Audience: Open to publicContact: Sara Hagenbuch, Coordinator Public Services and OutreachLearn more